I like Benefit´s products, they are creative and helpful. I love their Bad Gal mascara since I have very long and black lashes anyway and Bad Gal manages to make them appear even longer. Also the purple version of BadGal is a good idea for people fair hair,skin and eye color.

I bought Eyecon along with another product because of a coupon offer: If you bought 2 Benefit products you could get a mini size Dr. Feelgood for free.

I have 2 small wrinkles under each eye and started using eye cream not so long ago ( I´m only 30 ;o) ). Another thing is that I have and always had dark circles under my eyes.

For 30€ you expect an eye cream to be really effective if it promises to help against these two problems.

I haven´t noticed any change in the darkness of my eye circles nor in the size of the wrinkles.
Besides that the cream hurts at the outside corner of my eyes.

I will definetely not buy this again :o(

Ingredients: (so many ingredients...and some quite unhealthy ones among them)

Donnerstag, 25. November 2010

Applying was easy, and because I didn´t want to wait until the second layer is dry, one coat was enough for me. Next time I think I will use 2 coats though, because with one coat the color is still a little transparent.

The polish stayed on my nails for 5 days without any chipping which is really great! (I don´t use top or base coats because I have to remove my polish on the weekends for work anyway.)

Dienstag, 23. November 2010

I have been lucky in winning several giveaways - I wish I would be as lucky in "winning" a job offer.

I won this lovely stuffed tiger along with a book and stickers about tigers in a giveaway from WWF.

If you like to know more about tigers and how to help save these beautiful big cats, look here:

http://www.wwf.de/themen/kampagnen/2010-das-jahr-des-tigers/

(German)

http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/tigers/

(International)

On Facebook/TeeGschwendner I guessed right - the little Mainzelmann was waiting for the new Winter Apple Tea, and therefore I won a package of it along with 3 samples. I haven´t tried it yet but it smells very yummy.

Montag, 22. November 2010

This fresh green soap is a Christmas Special this year. They also have several other products in this range.

I love pine and forest scents! I also have Yankee Candles with the scent of pines.

100g of the soap cost 5,24€. It´s not a cheap pleasure, but definetely worth it: Good ingredients, no animal testing and charity donations.

Why "Creamy" Soap?

Heymountain says: "They contain little soap and loads of moisturising, skin-friendly butters and oils and they are full of wonderful essential oils and scents to activate all your senses. Due to their richness, they are excellent for cleaning dry skin or problem skin."

I say:

The soap is quite soft, especially after receiving the fresh package. It is wrapped in plastic foil, so it keeps its moisture and softness.If you don´t like that, you can keep it without its wapping.

The outer layers dissolve quickly with water, so it´s a nice feeling to wash with this soap. It foams a little. I usually use shower gel with a puff, but sometimes I like to "pamper" myself a little more and use products like this.

After using it I don´t have to use a body lotion at all. I have normal skin, though.

It´s a great product, and I will definitely buy more Heymountain Cream Soaps! :o)

Mittwoch, 17. November 2010

I was lucky to win a wonderful prize on the blog "Beauty with little Sheep".

The prize included an Essence stamping set, an Essence nail polish and eyeshadow, Lush Karma and Fresh Farmacy, samples, Swiss chocolate. All the things I really wanted to have, especially the stamping set and Fresh Farmacy!

...and it contains many minerals and microelements like calcium, aluminum, iron, copper, zinc, and others.

There are 2 ways of using it: internally and externally.

I bought it for internal use, since I had some problems with ma stomach. It was probably because of coffee. I don´t drink coffee anymore, and now I´m fine.

It has no specific taste, it just feels a little sandy between your teeth ;)

I like to make face masks with it: Just mix a little of the powder with a very little bit of water. Don´t use too much water, it will be too liquid! Healing Earth is good for oily skin. It takes the sebum away and clears the skin.

I just read that you can also use it -dry- for sunburn, wounds and itchy skin.

Also rheuma and muscle pain can be treated with a compress with Healing Earth and water due to better blood circulation.

I personally like to pour a small amount of the powder in my bathing water, in addition to the usual bathing products. I don´t know if it helps, but it certainly doesn´t do harm.

Samstag, 13. November 2010

Something very sad and terrible happened this night: In our local zoo there was a huge fire. All the "pet" animals, like ponies, goats, and donkeys died. There are 26 dead animals. Their neighbors, hippos and elephants, could be saved.
I often walked over a bridge which is close to their enclosure and watched them. Hoofed animals are my favorites, especially goats. Now all of them are dead. This is so sad ;-((((

Dienstag, 9. November 2010

At the moment we have mostly what you can call a "Golden" October - cold, but sunny.

I have the right perfume for this weather: the Vanillary solid perfume from Lush.

Lush says: The sweet and sensual real vanilla and jasmine absolutes are supported by the burnt caramel-like scent of tonka bean in this delicious perfume. Vanillary is a grown-up gourmand. Its character really warms and develops on the skin and you'll get many compliments wearing it.

I haven´t gotten any compliments yet :o(

But I can verify that it is a very warm and delicious scent. It is a gourmand note, but it is not too heavy, too sweet, or a "headache smell".

I never noticed any jasmine in it. Actually it doesn´t smell like "the" typical vanilla either, like you would expect a scent with the name "Vanillary" to smell. (But this is Lush, so nobody should be surprised ;) )

Caramel and toffee adds a "darker" note to the sweet vanilla. It makes me feel warm and comfortable.

The best way to use such a solid perfume is not to rub it over your finger or wrist (as I tried it first). Instead I use my finger nail to scratch a little bit of the mass off the rest, and apply this on my wrists.

The scent stays long on my skin and I love to put my nose close to it and I also love the way it stays in my sleeves.

Ingredients:

Organic Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia chinensis),

Castor Oil (Ricinus communis),

Candelilla Wax (Euphorbia cerifera),

Perfume,

Titanium Dioxide,

Vanilla Absolute (Vanilla planifolia),

Jasmine Absolute (Jasminum grandiflorum,

Tonka Absolute (Dipteryx odorata),

Vanilla Pod Powder (Vanilla planifolia),

Hydroxcitronellal,

*Coumarin,

*Benzyl Cinnamate,

Iron Oxides.

(I copied the ingredients from the Lush website. They are the ingredietns of the new product which is a stick. I still have the old one in the metal tin)

Donnerstag, 4. November 2010

I had two guinea pigs on vacation last week. They are very cute ( like all guinea pigs are :o) )

They have a big cage which was standing in the middle of our sleeping room.

If we had a bigger apartment I would take care of more guinea pigs from an animal help organisation, but at the moment I take animals of people who go on vacation and want their little ones to stay with someone who has some knowledge about them.

Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2010

Sometimes I like to spend my money on food that´s a little special and more expensive.

On a trade fair I found the cocoa drink with caramel taste, it´s with 60% cocoa and not as sweet as the usual cocoa powders. I like it most with soy milk because that adds a nutty flavor to the chocolate and caramel...yummy :o)

On a market I bought the "Honey Moon" honey. It is with rose oil. I love rose taste and scent!

They had many products with rose flowers and rose oil, like jelly, mustard, tea, salt, sugar... .

Samstag, 16. Oktober 2010

It was a spontaneous buy in the LUSH shop where we went last Saturday to celebrate the 2-year-anniversary of the local shop. I´m glad I bought it :), although I already own so many pieces of soap...

Lady Catrina Soap has the shape of a hat. Lady Catrina is a Mexican skeleton figure with a big, colorful hat. She is a symbol of the Day of the Dead. ( That´s what LUSH says. I don´t know much about Mexico)

I love its purple color and I fell in love with its smell, that´s why I bought it. The soap smells very fresh, fruity (candy-like) and lemony-limey.

It is vegan because LUSH did not use honey. Instead they used agave nectar which is supposed to moisturize the skin.

I use soap to wash my hands with and do not shower with it, but I think this soap is not too strong for dry skin like some other LUSH soaps, but as always it comes with a load of natural perfume oils and colorants.

Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2010

I bought an essential rose oil in Egypt which I sometimes use as perfume. Also a perfume I like very much is Serge Lutens´ "Sa Majeste la Rose" which is quite an atypical rose smell, very fresh and sweet.

I just love its scent! Fresh and green, like a freshly cut red rose with a glance of the smell of its leaves.

It is a very natural scent.

The shower gel is not irritating to sensitive skin.

What I also like is that they offer trial sizes. For shower gel it is 75ml (about 5€). Spending 10€ for a shower gel you have never smelled in "real life" is something I think twice about. Still, 5€ is a lot of money for such a product, but the ingredients and philosophy of Heymountain compensate for that.